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New 'Digital Arts' Festival Fuses Art & Technology
A Florida beach resort town will host a unique festival on Labor Day weekend.
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NeuroFocus to Test Clio Award Winners to Determine How Creative Prowess Matches With Brain Processes
The 49th Annual Clio Awards, the most recognized global awards competition for advertising, design, and interactive, today announced it will work with NeuroFocus, Inc. who will conduct neuromarketing testing at the 2008 Clio Festival, May 14-17 at the Gansevoort South Hotel in South Beach.
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Sakharov Museum director to be criminally indicted for Banned Artexhibition organization
MOSCOW. May 6 (Interfax) - Yury Samodurov, the director of the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center, has been summoned to the Investigative Committee for questioning.
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PTA art contest winners May 6, 2008
FLORESVILLE — The Tiny Tigers PTA held an art contest for kindergarten through second-grade students. Each student who participated received a ribbon, with the first-, second-, and third-place winners from each class receiving medals.
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Harley-Davidson Museum Announces Grand Opening Date
Nearly 105 years in the making, the Harley-Davidson Museum, located near downtown Milwaukee, will open its doors to the public on Saturday, July 12. Grand Opening festivities will kick off with a Harley-Davidson-style ceremony at 10 a.m. and will continue throughout the weekend.
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Marathon Oil, GM invest in ethanol maker Mascoma
Gas and oil refiner, GM invest in Mascoma's ethanol-making microbes, part of a $61 million round for clean tech start-up.
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Sculpture At Stadium To Honor Military Veterans
A huge "Stars and Stripes" sculpture will be the centerpiece of a new plaza at War Memorial Stadium to honor military veterans.
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Carroll Dunham Prints and Master Works from Permanent Collection Round out Spring Season at the Addison
ANDOVER, Mass.----On May 9, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the academic art museum of Phillips Academy, will continue its spring season with the unveiling of two exhibitions, Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey and Then and Now.
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Your Link to Germany
Germany's top architects are drawing international attention with innovative projects that combine function with aestheticism, integrate their surroundings and are ecologically progressive. Click on the gallery below for examples of German architecture in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and North America.
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Harley-Davidson Museum to open July 12
The Harley-Davidson Museum will open July 12 with a weekend-long grand opening celebration, the museum has announced.
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Washington Wines Festival Announces 'Wine Weekend' to Benefit Camp Korey, Hole in the Wall Camps and Washington Wine ...
The Washington Wines Festival announced today the "2008 Wine Weekend to benefit Camp Korey and Hole in the Wall Camps." This exclusive event featuring two days of fun, relaxation and entertainment will be held July 11 & 12, 2008 at the future site of Camp Korey at Carnation Farm and will raise funds to ensure children with serious illnesses have a place to play and "just be kids."
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Celebs galore hit the Met Costume Institute Gala
A wave of super-glam celebs hit the Metropolitan Museum's annual bash - and Scarlett Johansson showed off her engagement ring.
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Namibia: No More Permit Sales in Omaheke
The communal farming community in the Omaheke region has reaffirmed their resolve to only market their livestock through auctions and not through permits.
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Middleton sculptor picked to create statue of Barbaro
Alexa King figures she has already completed the hardest part of one of the most prestigious projects of her career as an equine sculptor. King learned recently that she has been chosen to create a permanent memorial statue of deceased colt Barbaro that will be part of his official burial site in front of Gate 1 at Churchill Downs in Louisville. "The tough part is over for me," said King, who is ...
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Oil Refineries Gives Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting On June 10, 2008
Oil Refineries Ltd. , Israel's largest oil refiner, announced today the convening of an Extraordinary General Meeting. See below announcement translated from Hebrew.
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Met exhibit packs a punch with superhero-themed exhibit
Newsflash: A cadre of superheroes has invaded one of Gotham's top cultural institutions, bringing swaths of bright color, pop graphics and an everyman theme to the hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Berwyn's Spindle may get new life
BERWYN, Ill. (AP) - Suburban Chicago's famous Car Kabob may be getting a second life after all. The sculpture called the Spindle featured cars from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s skewered on a huge metal spike and was made famous in the movie "Wayne's World."
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Roots Music Festival in northeast India
By L.C.K. Singh, Imphal, May 6 : Various leading musical groups and pop stars have made a confluence in the northeast region of the country for the popular Roots festival, as it organises its 6th edition here in the vastly music loving region of India.
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Clean tech rides high on oil prices, climate change
PricewaterhouseCoopers report touts positive signals for venture-backed clean tech. But even with strong fundamentals, problems in the industry are clear.
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Diamant Art Corporation Announces Revolutionary Additive to Undergo Testing in North America for the Rendering of ...
Diamant Art Corporation through its wholly owned subsidiary Diamant Film Inc. is pleased to announce that they are about to begin trials for use of their oxo biodegradation technology in the manufacturing of plastic PET (polyethylene terephthalate with Leading Bottling Companies for Scientific Evaluation in Noth America. The additive has been subject to research in Europe and initial results ...
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Tom, Gisele At 'Superheroes' Gala
Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady attend the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala, Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.
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Bill Reid Gallery opens to public on Saturday
The Bill Reid Gallery opens to the public on Saturday. The new gallery will house a collection of work by the Haida artist, who is credited with reviving Northwest Indian artistic traditions. He was ...
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Downtown festival will celebrate music, arts
A new summer-long festival could help bring locals and tourists alike to Rapid City’s downtown.
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Zimbabwe: Freshly Ground Puts Up Fine Finish to Hifa
Freshly Ground put up a fine finish to one of the sold-out concerts at the just-ended Harare International Festival of the Arts' Main Stage on Lion Larger Day.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
A couple of weeks ago, in writing up the Hirshhorn's Amy Sillman 'Directions' show, I complained that the exhibition was too commercial: The paintings were fresh out of the studio, that the installation didn't provide any specific Sillman-related context, and that the Hirshhorn show was essentially indistinguishable from how Sikkema Jenkins would show fresh-from-the-studio work.
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